John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Quotes

#1. When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#2. Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.

A.P.

#3. You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality
not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.

Naomi Klein

#4. The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#5. The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.

Terry Goodkind

#6. Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

Diane Ackerman

#7. Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

Jessica Simpson

#8. In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Anita Brookner

#9. be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get

R H Sin

#10. The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#11. Today, we are now deciding how do we treat those who are choosing to carry out a war against us, non-U.S. citizens who are choosing to take us to task for what we believe and who we are. In this conflict, we have to decide how we are going to try to find these terrorists.

Todd Tiahrt

#12. Our task as fiction writers isn't just to report something that didn't really happen. We have to give what we write a sense of reality. The tool of our tradition is language.

Alice McDermott

#13. The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#14. Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#15. The object of civil society is justice, not truth, virtue, wealth, knowledge, glory or power. Justice is followed by equality and liberty.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#16. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutley

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#17. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#18. Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

Eckhart Tolle

#19. Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#20. Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#21. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#22. Judge talent at its best but character at its worst.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#23. Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#24. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#25. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#26. Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

#28. If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.

Rita Ora

#29. A Christian's heart for God should be like a teakettle on a flaming stove burner - hot to touch, visibly steaming, and audible.

Elizabeth George

#30. If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

Emily Saliers

#31. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton